A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.

I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.

Don't let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he's a friend of labor.

In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.

I do to others what they do to me, only worse.

There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance.

I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey.

Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.

In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world.

Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor.

Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing.

The true mark of English conversation is not being able to tell when you've been insulted. I think the more sophisticated society becomes, the more it hides behind the masks it manufactures.

The biggest liar you will ever meet is yourself. It is amazing the lies we tell ourselves because of fear.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

I suspect that when the truth ceases to be heartbreakingly funny, we will be in a better place and a happier society over all.

I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.

A man who brags about satisfying 30 women is immature. A real man is one who can satisfy the same woman for 30 years.

Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.